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American Viola Society
The American Viola Society (AVS) is an organization headquartered in Dallas, Texas that encourages excellence in performance, pedagogy, research, composition, and lutherie by fostering communication and friendship among violists of all skill levels, ages, nationalities, and backgrounds. The American Viola Society offers a variety of services to its members and violists worldwide, including the Primrose International Viola Competition, the Gardner Composition Competition, and the Dalton Research Competition; publications, including the ''Journal of the American Viola Society'', the AVS Studio Blog, Teacher's Toolbox, and score downloads; a Viola Bank offering loans of instruments; and a National Teacher Directory. The society has regularly hosted International Viola Congresses as well as American Viola Society Festivals. History In 1971, Myron Rosenblum founded the American Viola Research Society, a subset of the Viola-Forschungsgellschaft, now the International Viola Society (IVS). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and the third-largest in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. The cities of Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were initially developed due to the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle and later oil in North and East Texas. The construction of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quincy Porter
William Quincy Porter (February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966) was an American composer and teacher of classical music. Biography Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith. Porter received two awards while studying music at Yale: the Osborne Prize for Fugue, and the Steinert Prize for orchestral composition. He performed the winning composition, a violin concerto, at graduation. Porter earned two degrees at Yale, an A.B. from Yale College and a Mus. B from the music school. After graduation, he spent a year in Paris, studying at Schola Cantorum, then went to New York where he studied with Ernest Bloch and Vincent d'Indy. In 1923 Porter joined the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was later appointed head of the Theory Department. He remained there until 1928 when he resigned to focus on composition. Returning to Paris on a Guggenheim Fellowship Porter began composing in earnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nokuthula Ngwenyama
Nokuthula Ngwenyama (born June 16, 1976) is an American solo viola, violist and composer of Northern Ndebele language, Ndebele and Japanese people, Japanese descent. She is a recording artist under EDI Records, and has taught at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Background Sixteen-year-old Nokuthula Ngwenyama came to international attention when she won the Primrose International Viola Competition in 1993 and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1994. Since then, she has been a soloist with orchestras around the world, including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center, Japan's Suntory Hall, the Louvre, and the White House. She is an alumna of Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, CA, the Curtis Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Callus
Helen Callus is a British violist who teaches at Northwestern University. Callus studied with Ian Jewel at the Royal Academy of Music in London, earning an Honorary ARAM (Associate of the RAM). She then continued her studies at the Peabody Conservatory, where she served as the teaching assistant to Paul Coletti. At age 26, she was appointed to the faculty of the University of Washington, where she taught for seven years before accepting a position at UCSB. In 2016, she accepted the position of Professor of Viola at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. Callus served as the President of the American Viola Society from 2005–2008. She has also served as the Viola Forum Editor for the American String Teachers Association Journal, and she founded BRATS (Bratsche Resources And Teaching in the Schools), an educational outreach organization. Recordings Callus has made recordings with several labels, including ASV, Analekta, and Dutton Epoch. * ''A Portrait of the Vio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Slowik
Peter Slowik (born 1957) is an American classical musician and academic working as a professor of viola and head of the string department at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Early life and education Slowik was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music. Career Before teaching at Oberlin, Slowik taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Northwestern University (where he earned the McCormick Professorship for Teaching Excellence), and Wheaton College as a guest lecturer and viola instructor. He has received awards in teaching excellence from Oberlin, Northwestern, and the American Viola Society. Some of his former viola students perform in major U.S. orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra, and in university appointments across the nation. Slowik is a former su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan De Veritch
Alan de Veritch (born July 18, 1947) is an American violist and viola teacher. He studied with William Primrose and performed in the Los Angeles Philharmonic for at least ten years. He has taught viola in various universities and was the president of the American Viola Society from 1990 to 1994.He played Jago peternella modern italian Viola Early life and solo career De Veritch's talent caught the attention of William Primrose when he was twelve after solo appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Primrose accepted him as a student. While studying with Primrose, his career quickly took flight. At the age of 16, De Veritch tied for first place in the National String Competition in Washington, D.C., the youngest and first violist to receive that honor. In the spring of 1965, De Veritch was one of three student musicians invited to perform with Jascha Heifetz at the University of Southern California. Later that year, De Veritch enrolled at the Indiana University School of Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Colgrass
Michael Charles Colgrass (April 22, 1932 – July 2, 2019) was an American-born Canada-based musician, composer, and educator. Life and career Colgrass was born in Brookfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His musical career began in Chicago as a jazz musician (1944–1949). He graduated from the University of Illinois (1954) with a degree in percussion performance and composition, including studies with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival and Lukas Foss at Tanglewood. He served two years as timpanist in the U.S. Seventh Army Symphony in Stuttgart, then spent eleven years supporting his composition activities as a free-lance percussionist in the city of New York, where his performance experiences included such varied groups as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Recording Orchestra's ''Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky'' series, and numerous ballet, opera, and jazz ensembles. He organized the percussion sections for Gunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Foote
Arthur William Foote (March 5, 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts – April 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker. Biography Foote was appointed organist of the First Church in Boston (Unitarian) in 1878, remaining there 32 years. A founder of the American Guild of Organists, he was one of the examiners at the first Guild Fellowship examination. He helped organize the New England chapter of the AGO, and from 1909 to 1912 (when the office was discontinued) he served as National Honorary President of the AGO, succeeding Horatio Parker in that position. He was one of the editors of ''Hymns of the Church Universal'', a Unitarian hymnal published in 1890. The modern tendency is to view Foote's music as "Romantic" and "European" in the light of the later generation of American composers such as Aaron Copland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Djupstrom
Michael Djupstrom (born 1980) is an American composer. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. After completing undergraduate and graduate studies in composition at the University of Michigan, Djupstrom moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he completed an Artist Diploma at the Curtis Institute of Music. His music has garnered many awards, and is published by Bright Press and Boosey & Hawkes. His composition teachers include Jennifer Higdon, Richard Danielpour, Bright Sheng and Betsy Jolas, among others. Awards *2002 – ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize *2002 – Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize, Ithaca College *2003, 2004 – ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award *2004 – William Schuman Prize, BMI Foundation *2005 – ASCAP/ Lotte Lehmann Foundation Song Cycle Competition, 3rd prize *2005 – Music Teachers National Association - Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year *2006 – G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Violists
This is a list of Wikipedia articles on notable viola players. In cases where a violist has also achieved fame in another musical area, such as conducting or composing, this is noted. Notable violists A * Tasso Adamopoulos (1944–2021) * Julia Rebekka Adler (b. 1978) * Adolfo Alejo (b. 1986), conductor * Hugh Allen (conductor), Sir Hugh Allen (1869–1946), conductor * Kris Allen (b. 1985) * Vladimir Altschuler, Vladimir Altshuler (b. 1946), conductor * Ruben Altunyan (1939–2021), composer, conductor * Johann Andreas Amon (1763–1825) * B. Tommy Andersson (b. 1964), composer, conductor * Paul Angerer (1927–2017), composer * Steven Ansell (b. 1954) * Atar Arad (b. 1945), composer * Cecil Aronowitz (1916–1978) * Dino Asciolla (1920–1994) * Jean-Marie Auberson (1920–2004), violinist, conductor * Emilie Autumn * Eddie Ayres (b. 1967) B * Joseph Baber (1937–2022), composer * Johann Aegidius Bach (1645–1716), organist * Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Slapin
Scott Slapin (born 1974) is an American composer and violist. Career Slapin has written more than sixty viola-centric chamber works and was commissioned to write the required piece for the 2008 Primrose International Viola Competition. He served on the committee for the first Maurice Gardner Composition Competition and co-premiered the winning work, ''Rachel Matthews' Dreams,'' at the 38th International Viola Congress. At the age of eighteen he was performing daily as the solo violist in the New York City production of Gerald Busby's Orpheus In Love, a chamber opera about Orpheus recast as a viola player. He was subsequently invited to premiere Busby's Muse for Solo Viola in Carnegie's Weill Hall, and he gave countless solo recitals and performed with ensembles throughout the United States and South America. Slapin has written extensively for the Penn State Viola Ensemble and the Wistaria String Quartet, and he is a former fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center in California. He can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology. Biography Childhood and early years (1881–98) Bartók was born in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on 25 March 1881. On his father's side, the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsodszirák, Borsod. His paternal grandmother was a Catholic of Bunjevci origin, but considered herself Hungarian. Bartók's father (1855–1888) was also named Béla. Bartók's mother, Paula (née Voit) (1857–1939), also spoke Hungarian fluently. A native of Turócszentmárton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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